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PROGR A M String Quartet in A minor (1919)..........................................................................................Fritz Kreisler Fantasia: Moderato - Allegro moderato (1875-1962) Scherzo: Allegro vivo con spirito Einleitung und Romanze: Allegretto-Andante con moto Finale: Allegro molto moderato Piano Concerto No.20 in D Minor, K.466 (arr. I. Lachner)................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Allegro (1756-1791) Romance Rondo: Allegro assai Alon Goldstein, piano Zachary Cohen, string bass -- Intermission --Â String Quartet in E minor (1932, rev 1959).................................................................Efrem Zimbalist Fantasia: Moderato francamente (1889-1985) Scherzo: Con brio Romanza: Andante con moto Finale: Moto perpetuo (Allegro di molto)
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PROGR A M NOTES Written by Timothy Noonan, Senior Lecturer - Music History and Literature Kreisler, String Quartet Fritz Kreisler was born in Vienna and became an American citizen in 1943. He lived well into his eighties and died in New York in 1962. Kreisler is best known as a virtuoso violinist and composer of such popular delights as Liebesfreud and Caprice Viennois, both written in 1910. He also composed operettas and songs, and wrote cadenzas for several of the violin concertos of the standard repertoire. Notoriously, he wrote several pieces for violin that imitate earlier styles, and for a time he attempted to convince the musical world of their authenticity as newly found works of past masters. His output of chamber music consists mainly, of course, of works for violin and piano, and there are several pieces for cello and piano. The lone chamber work not belonging to these groups is the present string quartet, a work written in 1919 as a tribute to his native Vienna. Cast in the traditional four movements, it is a very successful composition, one that speaks to the genuine depth of talent that Kreisler possessed. The first movement, titled “Fantasia,” opens with a cello solo that casts a tragic air and, while this character does not pervade the entire movement, there remains a sense of unease. The second movement, a scherzo and trio, is, by contrast, optimistic and energetic, except in the much less animated trio section. The slow movement bears the title “Introduction and Romance” and evokes a sense of Romantic yearning. And the dancelike finale features a cyclic return of the opening cello solo.
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 The Viennese phase of Mozart’s career began in 1781, as he moved to the imperial capital from his native Salzburg. Early in this period, he composed three piano concertos, K. 413-415 (nos. 11-13). Then, in early 1784, he turned again to the genre, producing a remarkable body of work over the next few years. 12 concertos, nos. 14-25, date from 1784-86, and these works are treasured today as among Mozart’s supreme achievements. Two of them—the work we hear today and no. 24, K. 491—are in minor keys, and both are remarkable and celebrated works. This afternoon’s performance presents a transcription of the concerto no. 20, K. 466, for piano, string quartet, and string bass by German composer and conductor Ignaz Lachner (1807-1895). Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466, breaks new ground in a sense. The first movement begins with an unsettled, syncopated idea, one that would seem inappropriate for presentation by the solo piano. But it was the norm in Mozart’s concertos up to this point that the piano, upon its entry, would play the theme that the orchestra presented at the outset. Here, instead, Mozart gives the pianist a brand new theme to play (and which is subsequently treated in the development section), prior to the return of the orchestra’s opening theme. From here on, the solo part largely traverses the ideas that the orchestra played initially, with the addition of a new second theme, offered by the soloist. The development section, as mentioned above, focuses on the new theme the piano presented at its first entrance. Here, and in many 4
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classical concertos, a cadenza follows the recapitulation; played alone by the soloist and traditionally improvised, the cadenza is a virtuosic commentary on the movement. Today Mr. Goldstein is playing the cadenza for K. 466 written by Beethoven, the only Mozart concerto for which Beethoven composed cadenzas. Upon its completion, a passage for the orchestra brings the movement quietly to a close. The slow movement, labeled Romanze, turns to a major key, B-flat. It is structured in an A-B-A scheme; you may recall the A section from the final credits of Amadeus. The B section is a stormy passage in G minor, recalling the unsettled nature of portions of the first movement. The finale is a rondo, the standard choice for concertos in this period. The piano presents the main theme which, remarkably, is never played by the orchestra. As we heard in the first movement, the piano then reenters with a new idea, before returning to the main theme, and this leads to a return of the sunnier major mode. After a return of the main theme, true to rondo form, the next section ensues, not new, but rather with a focus on developing earlier ideas. Once again, there is a cadenza, this one composed by Mr. Goldstein, at the end of which the piano presents the main theme again, leaving it unresolved, and then Mozart turns to the major mode for the remainder of the concerto. The ending is triumphant; the concerto is a classic in the fullest sense.
Efrem Zimbalist, String Quartet in E Minor Of Russian birth, violinist Efrem Zimbalist studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and his talents led him to perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto at the prestigious Leipzig Gewandhaus at the age of nineteen. In 1911, in his early twenties, he made his American debut, and his success in this country led to his decision to remain. He married twice, and the actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born in 1918 to his first wife, the singer Alma Gluck, who died in 1938. His second spouse was Mary Louise Curtis Bok, founder of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, where Zimbalist was to teach beginning in 1928; he served as its director from 1941 to 1968. He died in 1985 in Reno, Nevada, at the age of 95. In spite of his primary fame in the realm of performance, Zimbalist composed a considerable body of music, including an opera, a violin concerto, and chamber music, including the present string quartet. Initially composed in about 1932, and revised in 1959, the work is set in four movements. The opening Fantasia, in keeping with its title, is quite freely structured, but its form is supported by the periodic return of its main theme, somewhat in the manner of a rondo. A scherzo, with a brief trio section, gives way to a Romanza movement, set in an A-B-A form in which the middle section features contrapuntal textures. The finale, Moto perpetuo (“perpetual motion”) is a vivid display of Zimbalist’s own violin virtuosity, particularly in the brilliant first violin part.
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F I N E A R T S Q UA R T E T The Fine Arts Quartet, “one of the gold-plated names in chamber music” (Washington Post), ranks among the most distinguished ensembles of our time, with an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive recording legacy. Founded in Chicago in 1946, and based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1963, the Quartet is one of the elite few to have recorded and toured internationally for over half a century. Each season, violinists Ralph Evans and Efim Boico (who have been playing together nearly 30 years), guest violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez, and cellist Robert Cohen perform worldwide in such cities as New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Mexico City, and Toronto. The Quartet has recorded more than 200 works. Their latest releases include the piano quintets and piano quartets of Saint-Saëns and Schumann, the world premiere recording of Efrem Zimbalist’s Quartet in its 1959 revised edition, the world premiere digital recording of Eugène Ysaÿe’s long-lost masterpiece for quartet and string orchestra, “Harmonies du Soir”; Fritz Kreisler’s String Quartet, the two Saint-Saëns String Quartets, three Beethoven String Quintets; the Franck String Quartet and Piano Quintet; Fauré Piano Quintets; complete Bruckner chamber music; complete Mendelssohn String Quintets; “Four American Quartets” by Antheil, Herrmann, Glass, Evans; complete Schumann Quartets; and the Glazunov String Quintet and Novelettes. Aulos Musikado released their complete Dohnányi String Quartets and Piano Quintets, and Lyrinx released both their complete early Beethoven Quartets and complete Mozart String Quintets in SACD format. The Quartet’s recent recordings have received many distinctions. Their Fauré Quintets CD on Naxos with pianist Cristina Ortiz was singled out by the 2012 Gramophone Classical Music Guide as a “Gramophone award-winner and recording of legendary status”, and was among the recordings for which musical producer Steven Epstein won a 2009 Grammy® Award (“Producer of the Year, Classical”). The Quartet’s Franck CD was named “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone Magazine in February, 2010, and their Glazunov, Mendelssohn, and Fauré CD’s were each named a “Recording of the Year” by Musicweb International (2007-2009). In addition, their “Four American Quartets” album was designated a “BBC Music Magazine Choice” in 2008, their Schumann CD was named “one of the very finest chamber music recordings of the year” by the American Record Guide in 2007, and their Mozart Quintets SACD box set was named a “Critic’s Choice 2003” by the American Record Guide. Nearly all of the Quartet’s Naxos CDs were selected for Grammy® Awards entry lists in the “Best Classical Album” and/or “Best Chamber Music Performance” categories. Special recognition was given for the Quartet’s commitment to contemporary music: a 2003-2004 national CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, given jointly by Chamber Music America and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. The Quartet members have helped form and nurture many of today’s top international young ensembles. They have been guest professors at the national music conservatories of Paris and Lyon, as well as at the summer music schools of Yale University and Indiana University. They also appear regularly as jury members of major competitions such as Evian, Shostakovich, and Bordeaux. Documentaries on the Fine Arts Quartet have appeared on both French and American Public Television. For more information, please visit: www.fineartsquartet.com. 6
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BIOGR APHIES RALPH EVANS, violinist, prizewinner in the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, concertized as soloist throughout Europe and North America before succeeding Leonard Sorkin as first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet. Evans has recorded over 85 solo and chamber works to date. These include the two Bartók Sonatas for violin and piano, whose performance the New York Times enthusiastically recommended for its “searching insight and idiomatic flair,” and three virtuoso violin pieces by Lukas Foss with the composer at the piano. Evans graduated cum laude from Yale University, where he also received a doctorate. While a Fulbright scholar in London, he studied with Szymon Goldberg and Nathan Milstein, and soon won the top prize in a number of major American competitions, including the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York, and the National Federation of Music Clubs National Young Artist Competition. Evans has also received recognition for his work as a composer. His award winning composition “Nocturne” has been performed on American Public Television and his String Quartet No.1, recently released on the Naxos label, has been warmly greeted in the press (“rich and inventive” - Toronto Star; “whimsical and clever, engaging and amusing” - All Music Guide; “vigorous and tuneful” - Montreal Gazette; “seductive, modern sonorities” - France Ouest; “a small masterpiece” - Gli Amici della Musica). EFIM BOICO, violinist, enjoys an international career that has included solo appearances under conductors Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Guilini, Claudio Abbado and Erich Leinsdorf, and performances with Daniel Barenboim, Radu Lupu and Pinchas Zuckerman. After receiving his musical training in his native
Russia, he emigrated in 1967 to Israel, where he was appointed Principal Second Violin of the Israel Philharmonic - a position he held for eleven years. In 1971, he joined the Tel Aviv Quartet as second violinist, touring the world with guest artists such as André Previn and Vladimir Ashkenazy. In 1979, Boico was appointed concertmaster and soloist of the Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Barenboim, positions he held until 1983, when he joined the Fine Arts Quartet. Boico has been guest professor at the Paris and Lyons Conservatories in France, and the Yehudi Menuhin School in Switzerland. He is also a frequent juror representing the United States in the prestigious London, Evian, and Shostakovich Quartet Competitions. As music professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, he has received numerous awards, including the Wisconsin Public Education Professional Service Award for distinguished music teaching, and the Arts Recognition and Talent Search Award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. JUAN-MIGUEL HERNANDEZ, guest violist, was born in Montreal in 1985. He began studying the violin at the age of seven and switched to viola five years later. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Colburn Conservatory and graduate diploma from the New England Conservatory. Hernandez was a first prize winner of the 16th International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria, as well as prize winner in both the National Canadian Music Competition and the 9th National Sphinx Competition. He has appeared as guest soloist with orchestras in Atlanta, Seattle, Colorado, Rochester, and Chicago, and has performed in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He is a founding member of the Harlem Quartet, with whom he performed from 2006-12, as well as the Trio Virado and Boreal Trio. He has appeared on NBC’s Good Morning America, the Today Show and the Fine Arts Quartet
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Telemundo Network. His discography includes three quartet CDs as well as multiple collaborations with Chick Corea, Gary Burton and Norah Jones. In 2010 he was honored with the medal of the National Assembly of Quebec. ROBERT COHEN, cellist, made his concerto debut at the age of twelve at the Royal Festival Hall London and throughout his distinguished international career, he has been hailed as one of the foremost cellists of our time. “It is easy to hear what the fuss is about, he plays like a God” (New York Stereo Review). “Cohen can hold an audience in the palm of his hand” (The Guardian). Invited to perform concertos world-wide by conductors Claudio Abbado, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, and Sir Simon Rattle, Cohen has also collaborated in chamber music with many eminent artists such as Yehudi Menuhin and the Amadeus String Quartet, with whom he recorded the Schubert Cello Quintet on Deutsche Grammophon. At age nineteen, Cohen recorded the Elgar Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the EMI label, and since then, he has recorded much of the cello repertoire for Sony, Decca, DGG, EMI, and BIS. Cohen, who studied with the legendary artists William Pleeth, Jacqueline du Pré, and Mstislav Rostropovich, is an inspirational teacher who has given masterclasses all over the world. He is a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London and is director of the Charleston Manor Festival in the south of England. He joined the Fine Arts Quartet in January 2012. ZACHARY COHEN, a native of the Bronx, won the position of principal bass of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in his senior year of Juilliard at the age of 22. Mr. Cohen 8
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received his Bachelor of Music from Juilliard where he studied with legendary bassist Homer Mensch. During his summers Mr. Cohen has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, and The Dresden Musikfestspiele. As an active chamber musician he has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Ithzak Perlman, Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, Midori, Mark O’Connor, and members of the Guarneri and Mendelssohn quartets. He has also worked closely with some of today’s most respected composers such as Henri Dutilleux, Osvaldo Golijov, and Mario Davidovsky. While attending Juilliard, Mr. Cohen became a member of the chamber group ‘The Knights.’ He has recently recorded two albums with them on Sony Classical. This past winter Mr. Cohen had the opportunity to teach at the Gitameit Music School in Yangon, Myanmar. Mr. Cohen believes deeply that music’s ability to develop interconnectivity on a person to person level, even in nations with such extreme censorship, is a way to bring awareness, educate, and communicate across boundaries. In the 2010-11 season Mr. Cohen performed Bottesini’s ‘Double Concerto’ for two basses with Edgar Meyer and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Alon Goldstein is one of the most original and sensitive pianists of his generation, admired for his musical intelligence, dynamic personality, artistic vision and innovative programming. He has played with the Israel, London, Radio France, and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras as well as the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis, Dallas, Houston, and Vancouver symphonies under such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Jurowski, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Leon Fleisher, Peter Oundjian, Yoel Levi and others.
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He opened his 2013-2014 season at the Ravinia Festival as soloist with the Chicago Symphony under James Conlon in the Mozart Double and Triple concertos with Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher. A few months earlier, he appeared at the Ruhr Piano Festival performing three concerti in one evening. The current season will also include engagements with the Kansas City Symphony, Ft. Wayne Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic, among others. In the fall of 2013, Mr. Goldstein will release a recording of Mendelssohn Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with the Israel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yoav Talmi. This collaboration scored a major success on a 17-concert Latin American tour that included concerts in Teatro Colon, Palacio des Bellas Artes and Teatro Nacional. A return tour is planned for 2015-16. Highlights of last season included also his debut with the Toronto Symphony and performances with the Tokyo Quartet on their final tour. In addition, Mr. Goldstein’s was heard nation-wide in
performances with the Goldstein-PeledFiterstein Trio and solo recitals, many of which included the music of Debussy in homage of the composer’s 150th birthday. Other recent highlights include two world premieres of concerti that were written for Mr. Goldstein - Lost Souls by Avner Dorman with the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern, and Ornaments by Mark Kopytman with the Jerusalem Camerata, as well as performances at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra under Jaime Laredo, and solo recitals in Beijing (Forbidden City), Moscow (Kremlin), New York (Town Hall), Chicago, Guatemala City, Kent (UK), Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. Alon has performed at the Gilmore, Santa Fe, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Marlboro, Seattle, Verbier, Prussia Cove and Jerusalem music festivals. Over the past several years he has also taught and played at the Steans Institute of the Ravinia Festival, New York’s International Keyboard Festival and “Tel Hai” international piano master classes held in Israel.
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